atmmachine816

Pictures of 29 gallon, glowfish, new angel, and l.e.d. lighting you can kind of seeing the yellow fish glowing here, it's hard to get my camera to pick it up so far.

Angel man

i personly think that why change something that isn't broken. For example, what if we couldn't change the dna we would be happy with a regular zebra danio but since we know can change the dna us as humans with always want something new and eventually lead to a world full of cotaminated genes and problems because we as humans want somethings "new and unnatural!"

0morrokh

Well keep in mind that glofish were originally created to detect pollutants, not for marketing as aquarium fish. But I think you're absolutely right. It's a slippery slope for sure...first we create glofish for what seems to be a worthy purpose, but who knows what we'll be doing next.... Though that said, I still can't see anything inherently wrong with glofish specifically, although I wouldn't buy them myself.

neverendingninja

I have to agree with 0morrokh. I've seen them in several different LFS, and they always seem just the same as any other danios. I agree that messing with DNA is a scary thing, but you know...so was going to the moon. And, for that matter, so was crossing the oceans for the first time. People are always going to push the envelope, no matter the inherent risks. And it doesn't matter if us consumers buy into it, there will always be someone with a wallet thats a bit too heavy, and a mind that is a bit too curious.

You know, Columbus was bound to sail off the edge of the world...(I know, I know...he wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic...but I bet whoever did indeed do it first, probably peed their pants more than once on that trek)

With that said, I wouldn't buy GloFish, simply because they're not my style.

COBettaCouple

Look at human history and it's not hard to guess where playing with DNA will take us.

0morrokh

You can say that again.....

atmmachine816

You could say that about many things....though we don't ever seem to learn do we.

COBettaCouple

No, unfortunately we get more knowledge, but we don't get any wiser and always seem to use new knowledge to increase the problems in our world.

Blub